Booking Award Travel Late Next Year to BKK. Help please.
#1
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Join Date: Oct 2014
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Booking Award Travel Late Next Year to BKK. Help please.
First time poster here. I have a question about booking a multi-stop flight next year and was hoping to get some insight. I would like to fly ORD->BKK and return ORD->DXB, spend a few days in Dubai, and then fly home DXB->ORD. I am shooting for first class and would love to get on an A380. Right now, I possess around 140,000 Chase UR points. I would like to travel around this time next year. I was hoping I could someone could weigh in and help me chooses the best airline and route to book. This will be my first time booking award travel and I really would like not to screw it up.
#2
Join Date: Jun 2013
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Here's what you're looking at with UA (I'll let others refer to BA/SQ/KE as I have less experience with those).
ORD-BKK(destination)-DXB(stopover)-ORD
Your proposed trip prices out as a single roundtrip because United allows a stopover on roundtrip award tickets. Each way, it's going to be 40K in economy, 80K in business, and 130K in first. So you could make the trip in business for 160K or one way in first and the other in economy for 170K.
(Theoretically you might be able to get 70K biz /90K first United-only award pricing on the last leg, as UA flies from Dubai to Washington, but I believe the pricing engine will insist on BKK as the destination- rather than DXB as the destination with a stopover in BKK. And it's quite difficult to find award availability DXB-IAD, even if you could spin it that way.)
ORD-BKK(destination)-DXB(stopover)-ORD
Your proposed trip prices out as a single roundtrip because United allows a stopover on roundtrip award tickets. Each way, it's going to be 40K in economy, 80K in business, and 130K in first. So you could make the trip in business for 160K or one way in first and the other in economy for 170K.
(Theoretically you might be able to get 70K biz /90K first United-only award pricing on the last leg, as UA flies from Dubai to Washington, but I believe the pricing engine will insist on BKK as the destination- rather than DXB as the destination with a stopover in BKK. And it's quite difficult to find award availability DXB-IAD, even if you could spin it that way.)
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Join Date: Oct 2014
Posts: 11
Here's what you're looking at with UA (I'll let others refer to BA/SQ/KE as I have less experience with those).
ORD-BKK(destination)-DXB(stopover)-ORD
Your proposed trip prices out as a single roundtrip because United allows a stopover on roundtrip award tickets. Each way, it's going to be 40K in economy, 80K in business, and 130K in first. So you could make the trip in business for 160K or one way in first and the other in economy for 170K.
(Theoretically you might be able to get 70K biz /90K first United-only award pricing on the last leg, as UA flies from Dubai to Washington, but I believe the pricing engine will insist on BKK as the destination- rather than DXB as the destination with a stopover in BKK. And it's quite difficult to find award availability DXB-IAD, even if you could spin it that way.)
ORD-BKK(destination)-DXB(stopover)-ORD
Your proposed trip prices out as a single roundtrip because United allows a stopover on roundtrip award tickets. Each way, it's going to be 40K in economy, 80K in business, and 130K in first. So you could make the trip in business for 160K or one way in first and the other in economy for 170K.
(Theoretically you might be able to get 70K biz /90K first United-only award pricing on the last leg, as UA flies from Dubai to Washington, but I believe the pricing engine will insist on BKK as the destination- rather than DXB as the destination with a stopover in BKK. And it's quite difficult to find award availability DXB-IAD, even if you could spin it that way.)
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Look at the Partner First & Bus class line. Its 160000 for Roundtrip saver in business and you need to add 100k to get First if its on flights with First & Business.
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